We'd been sailing off the coast of Mozambique, helping fisheries inspectors monitor the country's waters for illegal fishing. Having been out at sea for three weeks, it was a while before we found out about "gangnam style". Eventually though, we heard how wildly popular it was on YouTube, and a Korean volunteer onboard to explained the lyrics to us.

We decided that making our own version would be a great way to reach new people and spread our oceans campaign message.

The sad reality is that the world's oceans are in urgent need of attention, and we need to get people talking more about the biggest problem: how overfishing is crippling ocean ecosystems. Tuna catches in the Indian Ocean peaked back in 2006, and shark finning is happening at a very unsustainable rate.

Unless fisheries management is improved, and illegal fishing is brought under control, many species of tuna and sharks will continue to decline - leaving some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in the world out of livelihoods and food.

The idea, then, was to ride the wave of Gangnam style, using it to spread the message about the need to defend our oceans. What followed was a series of hilarious after-hours group dance sessions below deck.

Picture a group of twenty severely uncoordinated cooks, deck-hands, engineers, and volunteers doing their best to dance in a vaguely coordinated fashion -- on a ship that just wouldn't stop rocking! We'd put on the video, line up in rows, and then just do our best to keep up, always struggling to "hear the beat" and keep count.

By the end of our filming almost every crewmember had got involved in one scene or another. Our version of Gangnam is without doubt the most multinational and multicultural version made to date.

Getting the scenes right took a lot of practice, but even after doing the same shot over and over, we all agreed that if 'Gangnam' is what it would take to get our message out to more people, then it was well worth the effort!

A nice article i read on google. support this cause of climate change and global warming...!!!

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swapnil anand
www.smetiger.com

The frozen cap of the Arctic Ocean appears to have reached its annual summertime minimum extent and broken a new record low on Sept. 16, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has reported.

Analysis of satellite data by NASA and the NASA-supported NSIDC at the University of Colorado in Boulder showed that the sea ice extent shrunk to 1.32 million square miles (3.41 million square kilometers).

The new record minimum measures almost 300,000 square miles less than the previous lowest extent in the satellite record, set in mid-September 2007, of 1.61 million square miles (4.17 million square kilometers). For comparison, the state of Texas measures around 268,600 square miles.

NSIDC cautioned that, although Sept. 16 seems to be the annual minimum, there's still time for winds to change and compact the ice floes, potentially reducing the sea ice extent further. NASA and NSIDC will release a complete analysis of the 2012 melt season next month, once all data for September are available.

Arctic sea ice cover naturally grows during the dark Arctic winters and retreats when the sun re-appears in the spring. But the sea ice minimum summertime extent, which is normally reached in September, has been decreasing over the last three decades as Arctic ocean and air temperatures have increased. This year's minimum extent is approximately half the size of the average extent from 1979 to 2000. This year's minimum extent also marks the first time Arctic sea ice has dipped below 4 million square kilometers.

"Climate models have predicted a retreat of the Arctic sea ice; but the actual retreat has proven to be much more rapid than the predictions," said Claire Parkinson, a climate scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "There continues to be considerable inter-annual variability in the sea ice cover, but the long-term retreat is quite apparent."

But sorry having to tell you: the Greenpeace, Gangnam style, is about dacing, bringing up small, family owned fishing vessels, tell 2nd world countries to save the climate and finally sign an online-campaign before boarding an airplane to enjoy a short trip to the other side of the world.

Greenpeace, Gangnam-style...you guys killed me once again.

How you like the TRIPPLE G? Believe me, you will enjoy it in 2013... :)

Sun Wu, godfather of Rainbow Warrior III

PS: sometimes I get the impression some people in Amsterdam must be completly lost in surreality of cyber-world.